Car passengers can sit in front if they are from the same household



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KUALA LUMPUR: It is not a violation of the Conditional Movement Control Order (CMCO) if two people from the same household are in the front seats of a car.

Chief Minister (Security) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob (pix) Today he clarified that the passenger is not required to sit in the back if he or she and the driver are from the same family.

He was commenting on a viral video that appeared to show a police officer fining a passenger in the front seat of a car.

“You guys come from the same family, you don’t even need to wear a mask in the car together as you stay under the same roof,” Ismail Sabri said at his Wisma Pertahanan press conference here today.

“I discovered that the police did not call the passenger, but the driver who was caught using his phone while driving. He was summoned for that, but he spread the news as if the passenger were the one summoned to sit next to him ”.

Meanwhile, the Enhanced Movement Control Order (EMCO) imposed in four areas, including the Penang Pretrial Detention and its dependencies for staff in Timur Laut District, ends today.

Ismail Sabri said that the EMCO at the Mutiara Kasih and Taman Khazanah Indah apartment in Lahad Datu, Sabah, scheduled to end on November 23, was also brought forward to today.

“The Malaysian Ministry of Health (MOH) has conducted 1,178 examinations with 189 positive COVID-19 cases registered in the prison area. However, the risk assessment carried out by the Ministry of Health found that the situation of the case showed a downward and controlled trend, since the last positive case was detected on November 5, “he said.

Meanwhile, police yesterday arrested 536 people for violating RMCO rules, referred eight of them, released them on bail and issued 527 compounding fines. -Called



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